User Reviews

Gari Columbus

Posted by Anonymous on 05/24/2014

Good fish but......

The fish is quite good, no question about it. But the rice, which seems to taste great at first, is ultimately disappointing The interior is noisy, crowded and unattractive; in no way related to what one expects from a high class (and very high priced) restaurant. Sake and wine prices are outlandish. We will not return.

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Posted by Richard on 07/20/2013

Getting worse and worse

Have been a regular client of Gari of Columbus for a couple of years. My wife and I have been finding the food quality getting poorer. It is such a pity. Their prices are quite high so we have decided we can't go back. The Sushi of Gari on the East Side is still much better quality.

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Posted by Doug J on 04/30/2013

Way overpriced

I went here once just to try it. The food is good, but the prices are outrageous. I would avoid this restaurant, there are plenty of equally good sushi restaurants on the Upper West Side that charge a fraction of the price that Gari does.

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Posted by Anonymous on 07/12/2012

Hugely overrated an overpriced

Nothing about Gari is outstanding. Not the freshness or quality of the ingredients; not the creativity of the chefs; not the service. Nothing. It is resoundingly mediocre in every way. So, where do they get iff charging such absurd prices? I've given Gari three chances. Three strikes. Each time I've been disappointed and felt robbed.

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Posted by WestVillageGal on 11/09/2011

Omakase or go away!

I guess they really want to turn this into an Omakase-only restaurant, because I was asked about five times before I was even handed a menu (twice by the front door staff and about three times by my waiter) whether I would be ordering the Omakase. As I had just stopped in for a quick meal (previous visits clocked in at about 30 - 40 minutes) before going to a meeting at the Natural History Museum, I did not really want to spend $100-200 or more on Omakase, so I repeatedly had to say, no I would not be ordering the Omakase. It bordered on obnoxious and I was made to feel very unwelcome that I wanted to order off the menu (imagine!) in this very pricey little place. I told the waiter I only had a limited amount and he still insisted they could serve the Omakase really fast. He just didn't seem to get it. That said, once I forcefully asserted my right to order off the menu (don't have a menu if you don't want people to order from it!), the sushi deluxe was excellent. People who say the fish here is not good don't know what they're talking about. This is real Japan style sushi, succulent small pieces, not those monster portions that some of the more Americanized places serve. Good sushi - yes! Enjoyable experience - no! Being made to feel small for not ordering Omakase is a new one to me and I have been to alot of sushi places. Paying $50 for a 30 minute meal (which is what I did) is something I can accept. Rushing thru a $100-200 Omakase meal just because the restaurant wants you to is something I could not accept.

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Posted by ny22 on 09/16/2010

Do not order delivery

I've never felt inclined to write a review of a restaurant before, but the service was so disappointing I felt I had to write something. I've visited the restaurant a few times in person and had good (but expensive) experiences, but I decided to order delivery tonight because I'm feeling sick and it was a totally different experience. The food took over TWO hours to arrive at my apartment, after I called numerous times and was promised the delivery guy was "almost there" for over an hour.

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Posted by Anonymous on 08/11/2010

I left hungry, broke, and postal

Have been dying to try one of Gari's outposts since he made a splash over 10 years ago on the Upper East Side. Severely disappointed. For $56 (I drank only water, got lunch sushi special and additional 4 pieces) I got tiny tiny pieces that were mostly flavorless. I ordered a piece of salmon roe, and it was half the size of what every restaurant gives and twice the price. Gari is a classic NY rip-off. Probably because they expanded from one restaurant to three and now they divide each sushi piece between the three restaurants.